Looking to any negative reaction to help you resolve a problem is like jumping out of an airplane and -- after you hit the ground -- pulling the cord to release your parachute!...

To know, firsthand, that nothing good ever comes of a cowardly act is to find the courage to say -- and to do -- what needs to be done in the moment, in spite of one's imagined fears about the outcome.

Our one true responsibility in life is to be awake and receptive to the eternally unfolding present moment, even as we give our full attention to what is revealed within us for its ceaseless passage through us.

When we walk around unaware of what thoughts and feelings are being projected upon the screen of our own mind, it is a safe bet that we will soon be watching a horror show.

Whenever we call upon something in ourselves we only imagine ourselves to be - but that we are not - there always surfaces a fear that expresses itself as a pressure we feel to prove that we are as imagined.

Ever since I learned about the law of attraction (and have experienced it), I have stopped reading newspapers because I don't want to give my attention and energy to the conflicts in this world, but rather to peace and happiness. However, I feel like this is making me ignorant. I really do want to work towards international conflict resolution and peace, but what role should learning history a...

Recently I have become involved in a business interest with some gifted and kind people who seem motivated beyond selfish interest. The magnitude of the possibilities seems unlimited...and the outcome would be good for everyone (on the earth). But, I need, want to, to clarify my own motives so that my decisions don't involve the ego and its wants. My desire is to act from the true self...to he...

When I was young, I thought about taking my own life. Now that I'm considerably older, I can't help wonder: "What have I lived for since then?" Or, more pointedly, "What in the last 40-odd years has made it worth staying alive?" Was it all the great hikes, my many mystical, inexplicable experiences? Do I remain for those that love me? To eat and watch TV? What hope gets me up each morning? Wi...

Without the soul there is no relationship to the Divine. Our relationship with the Divine occurs because of this tiny magnetic part within us that is capable of developing. We can't see leaves grow, and likewise we cannot directly see the soul grow. And yet, like a tree that opens its leaves when it gets what it needs from the sun, so does the nascent soul open up its sails when it receives th...

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness -- is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment.

Suffering over a bad choice that you see someone else make is no different than catching a glimpse of yourself in a badly fractured mirror... and then being taken over by an overwhelming fear that your life has gone to pieces.

Just as true emptiness holds all things, true silence bears all things. Whatever is brought into this silence, whatever it touches, is gradually silenced... not by an act of domination, but through a peaceful integration of a lesser peace into a greater one.